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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index a7e2c6044..cee54e017 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -394,7 +394,8 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-E, --cert <certificate[:password]>" (SSL) Tells curl to use the specified client certificate file when getting a file with HTTPS, FTPS or another SSL-based protocol. The certificate must be -in PEM format. If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried +in PKCS#12 format if using Secure Transport, or PEM format if using any other +engine. If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried for on the terminal. Note that this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that is the private key and the private certificate concatenated! See \fI--cert\fP and \fI--key\fP to specify them independently. @@ -410,9 +411,10 @@ recognized as password delimiter. If the nickname contains "\\", it needs to be escaped as "\\\\" so that it is not recognized as an escape character. (iOS and Mac OS X only) If curl is built against Secure Transport, then the -certificate string must match the name of a certificate that's in the system or -user keychain. The private key corresponding to the certificate, and -certificate chain (if any), must also be present in the keychain. +certificate string can either be the name of a certificate/private key in the +system or user keychain, or the path to a PKCS#12-encoded certificate and +private key. If you want to use a file from the current directory, please +precede it with "./" prefix, in order to avoid confusion with a nickname. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--engine <name>" |